hmmm why can't I hear new niki & the dove -- "tech issues" according to twitter?
― dc, Monday, 11 April 2016 16:56 (eight years ago) link
icy electronic pop from Auckland, New Zealand artist So Below
groovy pulsating track with arpeggiators and dreamy female vocals
So Below - Farhttps://soundcloud.com/sobelowsound/far
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GesbuYRUkYatwr1iYg8TT
― djmartian, Monday, 11 April 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
ok the kristin kontrol album is gonna rule me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvfH4rhFjTU
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
Yep! That's a VERY STRONG 2-for-2 so far.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 02:42 (eight years ago) link
new video for the latest single: Remind Me by Swedish artist Noonie Bao
Noonie Bao - Remind Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnjSkmMdm34
― djmartian, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
there is a new 4 track release by Ryan Driver and Thom Gill- I guess this would be described as indie r&b?
http://isthisthomas.bandcamp.com/
― soref, Thursday, 14 April 2016 03:06 (eight years ago) link
I'm really digging this Prince Rama album so far. Sounds totally different to the stuff I heard from them before, which was very very post-AC chillwave.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Monday, 18 April 2016 11:11 (eight years ago) link
Perhaps better suited for the Not House Not R&B Shangri-La, but the vocals are wispy enough for an honorary mention here:
Smerz - Becausehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZiEMnPcmQQ
― Unyielding Dispair Foundation Repair, LLC (Sanpaku), Sunday, 24 April 2016 02:36 (eight years ago) link
today in "things that were apparently recorded just for me," Laura Groves covers The Cleaners From Venus: www.thefourohfive.com/music/article/laura-groves-turns-lo-fi-pop-into-something-that-sparkles-on-gamma-ray-blue-14
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
her voice sounds a lot stronger on this than on her previous recordings — I guess the melody stays in a comfortable range for her
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
That url seems to be dead (just takes me to main page).
:(
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 28 April 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
aw, whoops. here's the soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/deekrecordings/laura-groves-gamma-ray-blue
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 29 April 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
Playlist is updated for April.
ILM's Rolling Shambhala Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― ulysses, Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:12 (eight years ago) link
From Holland:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5GA49GeIsEefje de Visser - Staan
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
That's lovely.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 10:08 (eight years ago) link
yes!!
― sean gramophone, Friday, 20 May 2016 15:49 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ispry9ERCoU
stunning
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 May 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
Oh shit, a full Cult Club album just popped up on Spotify today. I had no idea it was even coming.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
that Kristin Kontrol album is an absolute joy, the perfect intersection of so many different things I love.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 June 2016 08:56 (eight years ago) link
The Kristin Kontrol album reminds me of CRJ's Emotion in that the opening track is so mind blowing that the rest of the album, while uniformly excellent, cannot help but feel like a bit of a letdown in its inability to ever match the opener.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 June 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
I suppose I can't disagree with that
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 5 June 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
The Eefje de Visser album is very good, though Scheef is the standout imo.
https://youtu.be/0WXMkk8WURE
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 5 June 2016 09:05 (eight years ago) link
Just came to post about the Cult Club album but I see JF beat me to it by a few weeks. I've been checking in on Cult Club every couple of months to see if they were up to anything and was surprised tonight to see an album was out. Sounds great so far. For those who don't do Spotify, it's a free download (if you give up your email) in any digital format from their label's Bandcamp:
https://domestica.bandcamp.com/album/cult-club-play-with-lies-2016-ref-dom07-s
Would love to have this and the 12" on vinyl but coming in at over $50 with shipping from Spain I'll have to be content with the free download.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 23 June 2016 03:55 (seven years ago) link
The Men I Trust album from last year was one of my silent favorites, so I'm glad they're staying active. The bass work in this is phenomenal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNsSBhl_2LI
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 03:38 (seven years ago) link
I really don't know what you're all hearing in that Cult Club album, it just sounds like an average 80's pastiche to me.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 07:49 (seven years ago) link
Weaves - Human
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4c_virYnc
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/fastcut/ice-choir-unprepared maybe slightly out of place in this thread but I really like the new Ice Choir song, it's very Prefab Sprout
― ufo, Thursday, 30 June 2016 04:20 (seven years ago) link
pr0files album is great, not sure how i missed this until now
― ciderpress, Saturday, 2 July 2016 16:04 (seven years ago) link
Sure is! One of my tops of 2016.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 2 July 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
From the indie side of the fence, the cloudtop vocalist by far the most interesting part.
Pumarosa - Cecilehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEUSvZtfIDU
― Abandon hype all ye who enter here (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
They're superb. Really looking forward to more.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 02:53 (seven years ago) link
Wow, this new Totemo EP is one of the most beautiful things I've heard all year. It is 17 minutes you will not regret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK07Ox4bxEo
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Thursday, 7 July 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
наадя (Naadia) should have more listeners than sharivari and myself. Her new one, Хорошо, is thisthready.
― Abandon hype all ye who enter here (Sanpaku), Sunday, 10 July 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is updated.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
Belatedly, the new Samaris single.
Samaris - Wanted 2 Sayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilqhgHiQ1l4
― Bottleneck Century (Sanpaku), Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
More recently, uptempo Trentemøller
Trentemøller - River In Mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KMLyQjI5mI
― Bottleneck Century (Sanpaku), Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
The new Sleigh Bells is fantastic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCZDsd2E10
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 11 August 2016 09:53 (seven years ago) link
More indie, but the execution on the chorus makes this one stand out:
Blondfire - True Confessionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNHCaf8v1c
― no ends, only meanness (Sanpaku), Sunday, 21 August 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
hello fellow shambhala-heads. Determined to find the time to find more music from now on. I've been meaning to go through the 2015 thread but haven't managed it as it's too big, any recommended highlights?
I've barely heard any good new music, last actual purchases were probably Suzanne Sundfor and Kristin Kontrol (which I have been enjoying more than I thought I would)oh just seen that's been getting lots of love on here, good good!
― kinder, Monday, 22 August 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
Either I'm just not feeling the shambhala that's out there this year or I'm just burned out on all of it, but I'm listening to mostly other kinds of things this year. As I said on fb the other day, "I'm letting all that stuff go to voicemail now."
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
^^this is like me w/ country this year.
offhand, my fave shambhala singles from 2015 (all followed up by albums in 2016) came from shura, niki & the dove, ngaiire, and school of seven bells.
― dc, Monday, 22 August 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
I hear a lot of stuff I think is nice, fine even if on paper it ticks all the right boxes but only occasionally something I really really get into. It's a numbers game I think, and there are more and more artists with a similar sort of sound so it all gets watered down. But then again I download the odd sort of thing I think is 'hmmm not bad I suppose' then a year or two later I listen again and really love it. (Today it was Austra)
Thanks for the recs, will have a listen.
― kinder, Monday, 22 August 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
Suggestions for those playing Shambhala catch up:
2014: Ballet School - The Dew Lasts an Hour, iamamiwhoami - Blue, Lamb - Backspace Unwind, Mr. Twin Sister - Mr. Twin Sister, 2015: Allie X - CollXtion EP, Kaleida - Think EP, Kate Boy - One, Susanne Sundfor - Ten Love Songs, Tamaryn - Cranekiss, V.V. Brown - Glitch 2016: Kristin Kontrol - X-Communicate, Pr0files - Jurassic Technologie, Shura - Nothing's Real
― Shinzō Abe as Super Mario (Sanpaku), Monday, 22 August 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
got, got, need...Good list, thanks! Ballet School were one of my favourite finds from the 2014 list.
Empress Of were also in there and I think there's new stuff or at least a proper album (produced by David Wrench) I need to go and listen to.
― kinder, Monday, 22 August 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
Her album last year was so-so, but her one-off single from this year "Woman Is a Word" is so very good.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 22 August 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Sanpaku you are truly a God among men
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:03 (seven years ago) link
the new cathy davey would probably fit in well here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZPcmtyiUBk
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
There's been some amazing stuff here recently, thanks to everyone. Especially looking forward to hearing more of Eefje de Visser.
Jezabels - Pleasure Drive (new single from Aussie indie outfit)
https://youtu.be/dMV_O_z6-6U
― Lurkers of the world, unite! (Sanpaku), Saturday, 6 February 2016 09:39 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Good news... Some fool decided to poll the entire album (which I love)
"Let's go back to the island" – The Jezabels' Synthia
and it's going about as well as this guy's evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atSmcn0nflo
― sbahnhof, Sunday, 28 August 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
Eefje de Visser is great. I haven't listened to her current album very much yet, but her previous album, Het is, is very good.
She has a great live band, check out this complete show from 2014.
― ArchCarrier, Sunday, 28 August 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link